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I COOPER ETHERIDGE Ed ffiiiPl* The Houston Home Journul I SI SUBSCRIPTION RATES: M M P« r year in*«de Houston County; $4.00 out of I Ml Official Organ of Houston County and City of Perry I H^‘ton^ou^ y; 52 00 for ,i * monthl anyv ' h^- 3 All subscriptions payable in advance. Published every Thursday and entered as Second prwni,diw si i t ! r\ f s~> > en . <2 1.. . / <TS I Cla “ mail at **• Po,t offk * •* Perr v- C«. 3iw*. imaiT.T VOL, 98 NO. 24 Junkyards Spring Up in Perry Junkyards are growing all over the world faster than they can be covered up. The city of Perry has its share of junk Some eyesores are growing up on some of our main thoroughfares, and little or nothing is done about it. Recently we observed a small city not too far from Perry which obviously had never heard of planning and zoning. A fine house was right next to a junkyard, and rundown shacks next to fine looking business houses. It was obvious that all you had to have to build whatever you wanted to build was enough money. The location meant nothing. Consequently, the town has a sad look, an unplanned look, like a lady with her hair uncombed. Junkyards threaten to overwhelm us, unless city and county officials keep a day-by-day watch on the situation. Prosecution of one or two indivi duals for keeping one or two junk cars will not correct the real problem. The business junkyards seem to be the biggest offenders. We urge city and county officials to take action against junkyards before it is too late. From Our Files I I 5 YEARS, 10 YEARS, 20 YEARS and 30 YKARS AGO THIS WEEK. I S years ago; Dedication of air port scheduled here June 30. Slate officials will come to Perry for ceremonies . . . Bill Coby, Kolf professional at the Perry Country Club for the last five years, said yesterday he is sever ing his connection with (he club immediately .... Mrs. Elwood Maggard entered the Bank of Warner Robins Tuesday in hopes of selling two or three tickets lo th community concert. The staff members of the bank bought 12 tickets . . . Vanity Shop has completely redecorated inside of store .... Small Shopping cen ter on Macon Street is under construction . . . Georgia Power Company is constructing new buikhng . . . Miss Anja llvonen, 24, an elementary school teacher in Finland, will live in Houston County during June under the In lernatinoal Farm Youth Ex change Program. Mr, and Mrs. Charles Perfect of Elko will be Miss llvonen's hosts . . , The big Kiwanis team moved ahead in the Junior baseball program tins week . . Three Middle Georgians receive cash for suggestions for savings for Ah' Force. Col onel Castex P. Conner presented suggestion award checks and certificates to Charles M. Brown, Owen M. Stapleton, and Mrs. Sa rah W. Thomas . . . Perry’ Jay cees have a big work day clean ing headquarters and grounds . . Ground broken here for Tucker Elementary School. F. M. Greene Jr., Chester Crowell. Da vid A. Purdue and Charlie Boyle were present .... Welfare bene fits increased by $2 . . . Annual Stembridgc family reunion draws 110 members to Perry . . . Perry FFA quartet wins slate meet. The quartet was composed of Jackie Stewart. Lurry Barrett. Richard T Tucker ikk! Harven NeSmith. with Carol Ann Cheek, accompanist. 10 year* ago: Sixteen Chilean lumbermen paid Tolleson Lum ber Co.’s big sawmill here a visit as part of their lour of the United States. The group is studying methods of using wood in house construction. Yates Green named advisor to the Tourist Department of the State Chamber of Commerce . . . Jer ome Bloodworlh received S2O award in the Georgia Power Co.'s annual FFA winter grazing contest . . . Rev. Russell Lenox reassigned to Perry Methodist Church for another year. William M. Whipple, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Whipple, was ordained an elder in th Methodist ministry and admitted into full connection at the South Georgia Annual Conference at Valdosta. Rev. Whipple was returned for his se cond year as pastor of the Graves charge. 20 years age: State Depart ment of Education recommends Bonaire School, both elementary and high schools, be consolidated with the schools at Warner Rob ins and Perry .... Marvin Grif fin of Kathleen wins the honor PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA. 31069, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1968 of bringing in first cotton bloom o flhe season . . . County School Supt. S. W. Hickson outlines new 12-yera program to begin in the high schools of the county. The plan is lo be initiated because it is the thinking of the board that the students need an additional year of maturing; students en tering college need extra year to compel owitJi graduates of other 12 year schools; students need more Urn for arts, music, damalies, etc.; students entering college and taking jobs need more language and mathemuUcs . . . . J. W. Bloodworlh qualifies for re-election to the General Assembly of Georgia as repre sentative. 30 years ago: The largest en rollment of CCC workers since last October will take place in Georgia between July 1-July 20 when 1,806 enrol lees will be sought . . . Perry Baptist Church holds revival preparatory to cen tennial celebration of the church, J. A. Ivey is pastor and Rev. L H Wright of Macon will be doing the preaching . . . Miss Chloc Traylor and E, P. Staples wed at beautiful church cere mony . I P, Etheridge an nounces for re-election as repre sentative in the Georgia Legisla ture. Book Club Studies Work About China ’ The Wednesday Afternoon Book Club met May 15 at the home of Mrs, W. E. Marshall. Mrs. C. K. Radebaugh was co hostess. Mrs. E. I’. Staples presided and appointed the following committees for the new year: Mrs. C. K. Radebaugh,Mrs. J. L. Beavers and Mrs. Hugh Lawson, books; Mrs. W. E. Marshall and Mrs. D. M. Ryle, program; Mrs. G. F. Nunn and Mrs. M. M. Dean, yearbook; Mrs. W. T. Middle brooks, librarian; Mrs. W. K. Whipple, publicity. Officers who are elected for two years and will continue in office for 1968-69 are Mrs. E. P. Staples, president; Mrs. C. H. Tucker, Vice-president; Mrs. S. A. Nunn, secretary-treasurer; Mrs. J. B, Calhoun and Mrs. A. P. Whipple, historians. Mrs. W. T. Middlebrooks introduced the program. Miss Theresa Hodges gave an informative and thought-pro voking study of China, The Other Communism, by K. S. Karol, a well known foreign journalist. Twenty Letters by Svetlana Alliluyeva was the background for an interesting talk by Mrs. Staples, giving her impressions of the author, her family, and the average Russian. Dainty refreshments were served by the hostesses. DAD’S DAY- JUNE 16 ■ • HOBBY HRANCH ,; ON A BRANCH.. . If seems almost certain now the state will purchase Sapelo, one of Georgia’s more prominent Gold e n Isles. The island will be used for ma rine biology research and the State Game and Fish Commission will utilize the vast natural resources on Sapelo to raise and preserve deer and wild turkey, among other native Georgia wildlife. The state is paying $1 million for Sapelo Island. That sounds like a lot of money and it is, but it’s a bargain price for Sapelo. Sapelo, for many years, was the re treat of North Carolina tobacco mag nate R, J. Reynolds. He had a palatial mansion on the island with every con ceivable luxury built into “De big white house" as long-time resident Ne groes of the island called the mansion. I spent a good portion of my child hood being reared on one of Georgia’s Golden Isles, Colonel’s Island, which is located only a few miles from Sapelo. 1 remember going over to Sapelo and pushing our small boat up onto the white, sandy beach, completely ig noring the big signs posted on the beach that read: “Absolutely No Tres passing." The beach on Sapelo was a great place to walk and find all kinds of shells and marine life that had been washed ashore. You could find big. scary-looking horeshoe crabs that had been left by the ebb tide way up on the beach to die. Many times you could catch mullet or other fish that had been trapped in a beach pool by the outgoing tide and it was never surpris ing to see an alligator scamper from the beach into the thick undergrowth that bordered all along the crystal beach. Sapelo’s beach is sprinkled with tons of driftwood. It was always a difficult thing for me to understand how old Jennings Attends School of Banking BATON ROUGE. La.-Harold Jennings, cashier of Perry Loan and Savings Bank, Perry was among 281 bankers who received certificates at gradua tion ceremonies Friday, June 7, ending the 19th annual ses sion of the School of Banking in the South. The School meets for two weeks each summer at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, under sponsorship of 14 Southern state bankers’ associations. trees and limbs hail Deen molded into such shapes by the sand and sea. Many pieces of driftwood on Sapelo look al most as if they have been touched by the hand of God and not time. There are quite a lew Negroes who live on Sapelo, many of them who were born there. They all work on the is land in some capacity or other and for the most part live from the riches of the Atlantic surrounding Sapelo. There is always a supply of shrimp, fish, oys ters, clams and crabs in abundance around Sapelo. And all this seafood is there for the taking, free. On one occasion when we visited Sapelo, we ran into a white-haired Ne gro man who was sewing a shrimp net out by a large oak tree near his small house. The net was hung on a nail in the tree and his old but nimble fingers sewed the big shrimp net in away that made it look like a simple task, which it isn't. The old Negro was friendly and talkative, as are all the Negroes of Sapelo. I remember some of what he told us, just as if my last visit to Sapelo was yesterday. “I ben cachin’ swimp with dis’ net for de las' many year and I hope de be many year moe.’’ "Dey tel me I be 100 year old. but I don’t know if dat true. I been he’ar a long time do’ and I reckon as to dat migh’ be true.” ”1 was born on dis’ place and I ain’t neve’ been offin’ it—not one time and 1 reckon I be right he’ar wen de’ Lord call me—which’in dat gone be alrigt wid me.” I’m glad the state is going to buy Sapelo. Such places where natural wilderness and an old way of life still remain, should be preserved for future generations to see. . . . Sapelo Island deserves to remain just the way it is now. ... I hope bulldozers and men never damage it. Revival Planned By Church of God The Perry Church of God on Oakridge Dr. will begin a revival on June 24 with the Rev. Ram kisson doing the preaching. Rev. Ramkisson is a full blooded Indian from Trinidad, who was converted to Christ when he was 16 years old. He was driven from his home after his conversion. Come and be blessed by this man of God. Services will be held each evening at 7:30. Cable TV Going To Centerville CENTERVILLE-The City Os Centerville awarded a cable TV franchise to CATV and Service Communications, Inc., last week. The firm has its headquarters in Centerville. Negotiations between the City of Center ville and the firm have been underway for several weeks. Printing type was invented in China. mmmm. mmmm. mmm& mmmmmmmmmm COOPER ETHERIDGE * l( >ng Hol jrrls 81 GOODBYE, BILLY: Rev. Billy Key, Perry Methodist pastor who is going to Americas this week, has been a Home Journal guest columnist (Light from Lamps of Truth) for the last two years. We will miss him. Ev ery week people told us how much they appreciated his column. He al ways had an interesting and inspiring column. Rev. Dan M. Hodges, pastor of the First Baptist Church, has accepted our invitation to write a column for us during the next year, and we look forward to his columns beginning next week. He has not chosen a name for his columns but headings for columns don’t make much difference; it’s what’s down in the message that counts. LOOK BACKWARD AND FOR WARD: Looking at two oak trees in our yard, we were impressed the other day to think of the past, then to think about the future. One of the trees is a mighty oak tree, about six feet in diameter near its base. It has been there maybe a hundred years, perhaps planted by a member of the Culler family when Perry was a settlement of about 100 people. It stood near the frame house that stood for nearly 75 years before it was torn down to make room for what is our “modern house”, built in 1952. We wondered what those people of three or four generations thought when they planted this old oak tree, which catches the eye of every tree surgeon that comes by our house. If they are like we are, they wondered who might live near this big oak many Who will live under its branches when The other tree that attracts us is a little, spindly water oak, the same kind of tree as the old, decaying oak. who will live under its branches when this tree that we planted becomes big and strong? And what will a genera tion of another time in history think about this tree? What kind of foot prints will have been left by the occu pants of this house; will the house be torn down for another “modern house” and who will plant another oak to take the place of the decaying tree of that time? Where did we come from and where are we going? Why were we sent to this place in this time? Why were there three children in this fam ily instead of two, or four, or no chil dren? Lord, there are a thousand ques tions that man has been asking about himself, and no human has been smart enough to answer them. Man cries out for the answers, all the time feel ing incapable of even being articu late in forming the questions. So we look at the two trees and .•. ■ • • ... • •’>? ig; I f LIGHT FROM f LAMPS OF TRUTH | by rev. billy key Pastor, Perry Methodist Church IN GRATITUDE For the better part of three years 1 have been writing a little message in this paper under the heading, “Light From Lamps Os Truth”. With these words I will conclude this column in the hope that it has added a bit of light to some who walk in the shadows. With the reading of the ap pohtments at our South Georgia Annual Conference last Friday I was appointed pastor of the First Methodist Church in Americus, ESTABLISHED 1870 I our mimi runs over the period of five or six generations and we wonder what the past is trying to tell us, and we long for a view of the future, but we stumble here and find that we must live from day to day and put our questions to the supreme being that orders the universe. THE EPITAPH chosen for the hy pochondriac’s tombstone was sim ply: “I KEPT TELLING THEM I was sick”. MRS. NORA LAWRENCE SMITH. 82, editor of The Wiregrass Farmer at Ashburn, was being honored by her friends and state officials last week. As she reached out to shake hands with Gov. Maddox, a snap loosened and her skirt dropped to the floor. She was not disturbed, simply reached down and hooked everything up again. * Gov. Maddox said that even after her skirt dropped, Miss Nora still had on more than the mini-skirt set. THE WORST THING about get ting up in the morning is that the next thing you have to do is to go to work! VIOLENCE; President Johnson has appointed a special commission to determine the cause of the kind of violence that caused three assassina tions in the U. S., in the last four years. This is an over-simplification, of course, but the underlying cause is greed—on the part of the great major ity of Americans. How to change the mood of America? Someone might try God, for a change. GUN LAW: We had much rather that our Congress be a leadership group, instead of reacting to situa tions. We dislike seeing our leaders waiing unil somehing happens and then passing some hastily-drawn legis- ft lation to correct a situation. We be lieve that some kind of firearms le gislation should have been passed a long time ago. A firearms law on the books would not necessarily have sav ed the life of Senator Kennedy. No law is perfect; there is law against speeding but deaths are caused by speeding every day. We think that a strong firearms law could REDUCE the number of gun deaths in the U. S. It would never be 100 per cent en forceable, no more than a speeding law would be 100 per cent effective, but we do not hear any suggestions that the speeding laws be taken off the books because speeding laws restrict individuals. A strong firearms bill would make people think twice before letting guns get into the hands of those who should not have them. ■j We, the whole Key Ring, leave Perry with reluctance and with many fine memories tucked away in our hearts. It has been a short four years. I am grateful to The Home Journal for the opportunity given me for expression and witness concerning the highest that I know and feel. I am thankful to all of you who have taken time to read this column and for every expression that has come to me about its helpfulness. lam indebted to Mrs. Eric Staples for reminding me every Monday A. M. that it was that time again and then for typing it and getting it to The Home Journal on time, f If this corner of the paper has been a blessing to any, has helped lift a load for those that are overburdened or shed some light on those walking in the dark then that is my reward. So today, with thanksgiving t° God and with love in my h* ' l ° r all of you I bring to a close this wonderful chapter of m> “ e with a favorite hymn of nine. My times are in Thy hand' My God I wish them there, My life, my friends, my ioU *’ I leave entirely to Thy car ®‘ My times are in Thy hand, whatever they may 56 ’ Pleasing or painful, dark bright, as best may seem to nee. My times are in Thy n 1 why should I doubt or f par ' My Father’s hand will never cause his child a needless tear. My times are in Thy he * | I’ll always trust in ®f’ / And, after death, at Thy hand I shall for ever ne.